BALSA MOD END RON

(from balsam on —an old Greek word used by Theophrastus—balm or balsam, and dendron, a tree). O RD. Burse raceæ. Greenhouse or stove balsamiferous trees. Flowers small, green, axillary, often unisexual; calyx four-toothed, permanent; petals four, linear-oblong, in duplicately valvate in æstivation; stamens eight, inserted under the annular disk, having elevated warts between them. Berry, or drupe, ovate, acute, one to two-celled, marked with four sutures. Leaves with three to five se ile, dotle leaflets. They thrive in a compost of thoroughly drained sandy loam. Propagated by cuttings of ripe young wood, taken in April, and placed under a hand gla , in bottom heat. The species named below doubtfully belongs to this genus, as the characteristics above enumerated will show.